REQUIRED : Prepare the libavcodec (ffmpeg) build environment for MakeMKV using the libraries from the Packman repository:
Using the Packman repositories is the easiest and most straight-forward method as Packman's repo provides simplified and up-to-date support for FFmpeg.Note: Packman's FFmpeg does *not* provide/include Fraunhofer FDK AAC based support via libfdk-aac (due to licensing).
Support for the Fraunhofer FDK AAC (libfdk-aac) under libavcodec requires locally compiling ffmpeg with libfdk-aac and is not documented in this post.

Note: The current (thru May 2017) beta license code for MakeMKV can be found at:http://www.makemkv.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1053
I have no idea how long software can (or should) be in beta - I bought a license for MakeMKV back in 2010 (after I'd already been using it for a while to archive my aging media library)... MakeMKV truly is a wonderful multi-platform example of well-maintained software - and at very reasonable price!

Good luck !!

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both the "apt-get" tool as well as most of the referenced "required tools and libraries" are of the debian variant... not too useful for us non-debian folks !!

Additionally, if the user uses a desktop (as most of us do), it'd be nice to optionally integrate an application icon/device-action. The license code bit makes life justa a little simpler (doesn't require altering the host timebase).

Yes Aptitude is debian, however libqt4-dev is the same whether its on debian/suse/fedora/arch/windows etc... In linux terms its generally assumed that you adapt the the package manager thats in the description.
even the part about the application link is distribution independent. The only thing that is suse is the package manager instructions.

Although this thread was initially intended openSuSE, but also is about installing on non-Debian Linux, then some may like to know that all is working in PCLinuxOS KDE4. Added the specific dependencies which were all in the Synaptic PCL repository. then did the "make" and "install" from root for quickest and easiest successful installation yet over the times I'd done in earlier versions and also now in Ubuntu 12.04 and a few of its related builds.

I am quite new with openSUSE, but have been using makemkv with Fedora for quite some time.

I am having trouble installing makemkv 1.8.11 from source on openSUSE 13.1 and have the following errors after entering makemkv-oss folder / ./config and having installed the above mentioned dependencies:

checking for ffmpeg... no
configure: error: No package 'libavcodec' found
No package 'libavutil' found.

Obviously I have tried using zypper to install the above, but, I still get the above errors.

Please could someone write a new (for openSUSE) beginning to end installation from source set of instructions please for us openSUSE newbies!

I would be so thankful, as, I am at the mercy of the repos that I can find, which, will only install makemkv 1.8.4